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Friday, May 15, 2009

Jackson man tries to lure child with internet porn

So let's see. It is not okay for a 14-year-old child to view sexually explicit material, but it is okay for the same said child to view it at the library. Because the ALA says so. Got it.

West Bend - A 21-year-old Jackson man has been charged with trying to get what he thought was a 14-year-old girl to view sexual activity over the Internet.

According to a criminal complaint, Brent W. Wallace contacted a Door County Sheriff's Department investigator posing as the girl in an online chat room and sent sexually explicit video and messages to her. He also asked her to mail him a sexually explicit video of herself to him.On Monday, Jackson police and a postal inspector executed a search warrant and seized computer equipment and a camera and took Wallace into custody and charged him on Wednesday.

Wallace is free on a $2,500 signature bond. A condition of bail is that he not use a computer.If convicted, Wallace could be imprisoned up to three years. He is next due in court June 3.

I, too, don't find the correlation between actively exposing a child to pornography of yourself for purpose of self-stimulation and gratification and passively placing books on a shelf where it could possibly be reached by a child?

Parental supervision is a necessity both online and in the library, I believe and both incidents could be avoided by parental accompaniment. That being said I know very few parents that wouldn't trust a 14-year old on the internet alone, so in that case it's probably the fault of the child for allowing the situation to get that far. However, the parents are responsible to for failing to educate their child on internet safety. The man had malicious intent though, and as the saying goes "intent is 9/10ths of the law".

Could you elaborate on how this incident relates specifically to explicit materials being available via a library?

C'mon now, the correlation is this: This person was trying to get a 14-year-old girl to view sexually explicit material, and he was arrested for that because it's illegal for a 14-year-old to view such content... so how come it's not against the law to have sexually explicit books available to that same 14-year-old right in our library? There is a direct correlation there! Sexually explicit materials are against the law for anyone under 18, and books with this same questionable content are readily available in the YA section of the library.

Sexually explicit materials are against the law for anyone under 18, and books with this same questionable content are readily available in the YA section of the library.SOME sexually explicit materials are against the law for people under 18. However, an eight-year-old can walk into Barnes and Noble and buy a Harlequin romance novel, no problem. The books in question are no more explicit than the average romance novel or grocery store magazine. The content in home-made pornographic videos is NOT the same thing at all. The library doesn't rent out pornographic videos, which is what's at issue here.

Does that mean I think eight-year-olds should be reading Danielle Steele? Of course not. I just think that in the bookstore, as in the grocery store, as in the library, parents need to monitor their children. There is nothing criminal about a kid reading about puberty - it just may not be in their best interest, and no one is capable of determining that except the child's parent.

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TIMELINE OF ALA'S HIJACKING OF THE WEST BEND LIBRARY

YOUR LIBRARY: NO LONGER A SAFE PLACE

The West Bend Community Memorial Library and members of the SHARE Library System (to include Germantown, Slinger, Hartford and Kewaskum) no longer can be considered SAFE FOR CHILDREN.

Your library board believes:

1. All materials should be available for all ages (anything goes). Really!2. National control cannot (and should not) be resisted; therefore, the disturbing value system of the ALA, OIF,WLA trumps local control of the library by the citizens and taxpayers it serves.3. Young adults are children ages 11 through 17. (Be sure to address your 11 year old in a manner appropos.)4. Assisting parents in identifying sexually explicit materials within your library is not important to them.5. You must stay with your children and read each book he/she checks out to assure they are not entering into the YA Zone, that is, the "Yes to All Zone."6. ..that if other people's young children (even younger than 11....) are openly reading books of a sexually explicit, graphic nature, say nothing...and by all means, don't stop them from checking them out. You, too, can have an 8-year-old snag "The Joy of Sex" off the shelf right here in your very own library!7. ..that porn filters are not required, therefore, none are needed. True loyalty to the many children they serve. After all, we would not want to restrict freedom of speech to those young'uns!8. ...that organizations such as SafeLibraries,PFOX, PABBIS, and Family Friendly Libraries, that work to protect children from being sexually victimized are not welcome in our community.

9. That the excerpts listed below (WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN) are perfectly acceptable for the eyes of children.

This is a propagana battle to ensure children retain access to inappropriate mateial despite the law, common sense and community standards.

PARENTS, TAXPAYERS, CITIZENS OF THE SHARED LIBRARY SYSTEM OF THE WEST BEND COMMUNITY MEMORIAL LIBRARY.......

YOU NO LONGER ARE A TAXPAYING SUPPORTER AND/OR PATRON OF A FAMILY-SAFE LIBRARY.